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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the tr

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. – Ruth Benedict

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strength
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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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Culture
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict

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Perception
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Other Quotes from
War
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The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow Operation Re-elect Bush doesnt seem to be popular. – Jay Leno

Category:
War

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, impose democracy. We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. – Paul Wolfowitz

Category:
War

And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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War

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. – Sharon Stone

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War

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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. – Josh Billings

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